Annelid Classes is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the classes and subclasses of segmented worms, bristle worms, earthworms and leeches, and peanut worms. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a class of annelid worms. It excludes classes of other animal phyla. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Wikipedia: Polychaete
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Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes ().
Wikipedia: Clitellata
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The Clitellata are a class of annelid worms, characterized by having a clitellum, the 'collar' that forms a reproductive cocoon during part of their life cycles.
Oligochaeta (Wikipedia)
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Oligochaeta is a subclass of soft-bodied animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms.
Wikipedia: Sipuncula
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The Sipuncula or Sipunculida (common names sipunculid worms or peanut worms) is a class containing about 162 species of marine annelid worms, that have secondarily lost their segmentation.
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